Webotron
March 25th, 2010
Checking out the videos from Musikmesse I came across the pretty awesome looking Korg Monotron. I decided to knock up a quick version as I am currently working on MS-20 style filters and thought this would be a nice test platform.
I had to guess pretty much how it works as I don’t have much to go on, not even the vco shape (sounds like a saw to me). Obviously won’t sound nearly as good as the real thing but might give some idea of the kinds of sounds it could produce.
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w00t!
Comment by mothy — March 26, 2010 @ 2:14 am
Could you possibly briefly explain how you write such a program ? It’s all java ? Similar to flash ?
Comment by ugo capeto — March 26, 2010 @ 8:26 am
Briefly - not really it’s fairly involved. But yes it’s all Java and quite different to code than flash. Flash is much less capable of real-time audio (but it’s getting there). If you want to learn this sort of thing you will need to read a book or two on Java and Audio DSP. The maths behind generating sound properly is not trivial and has taken me several years to get to grips with. I have also been programming for 10 years.
Comment by admin — March 26, 2010 @ 8:35 am
thanks for the answer. tbh, i’d be content with creating any blip at the correct standard pitches (C4, etc). not too worried about aound synthesis per se. i’ve also been programming for a long time, just not in java or flash.
Comment by ugo capeto — March 26, 2010 @ 8:56 am
Hi for me there is a strange cycling kind of pitched tone on both WS-101 and this. It cant be intentional. just to let you know
Comment by jay — March 27, 2010 @ 8:06 am
How pronounced is the cyclic sound and what sort of frequency is it? Is it dependent on pitch or anything else? Thanks for the feedback.
Comment by admin — March 27, 2010 @ 1:13 pm
updating to latest java for mac (1.5.0.22) seemed to solve it.
Comment by jay — March 28, 2010 @ 1:38 am
you have some great virtual synths, any prospect of them becoming ported as VST instruments?
Comment by steve g — March 28, 2010 @ 2:56 pm
I don’t really have much incentive to port to VST. I’m not very talented musically and I don’t own any vst hosts. I doubt I could sell any of them as there are better sounding free instruments out there already. If I come up with something unique that sounds great I might consider it.
Comment by admin — March 29, 2010 @ 8:24 am
First site I went to on the iPad. Won’t work, though it is java….
Comment by Cody — April 3, 2010 @ 7:20 pm